Present Perfect Simple: Grammar Rules and Examples, Diapositivas de Inglés

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PRESENT PERFECT

SIMPLE

When do we use the present perfect simple?

Is often used for an action that started at some time in the past and still continuing now.

STRUCTURE:

Affirmative: Subject+have/has+ past participle (3rd column)

• (^) I have bought a lot of new books Negative: Subject+ haven’t/hasn’t + past participle (3rd column)
• (^) John hasn’t gone to work Interrogative: Have/Has + subject+ past participle (3rd column)
• (^) Have they learned english? Short anwers: Yes, +subject+ have or has/ No,+subject+ haven’t or hasn’t

Regular and Irregular verbs

When we form the present perfect simple and the verb is regular we just add -ed ● (^) talk- talked- talked ● (^) want-wanted-wanted Irregular verbs don't follow the same rule as regular verbs and you must learn them to be able to use them in sentences. ● (^) be -> been ● (^) break -> broken

Since/For

For : for+ period of time For ten minutes, for two hours, for one day, for a month, for a year, for a long time...

• (^) She has lived in Alicante for a long time (Ella ha viscut a Alacant durant molt temps). Since : Since 10 o'clock, since Tuesday, since 2nd January, since August, 200, since we arrived,since I was ten years old...
• (^) I haven't eaten anything since 10 o'clock (No he menjat res des de les 10).

Already and Just

I've already drunk three coffees this morning./ Don't write to John, I've already done it. Have you already written to John? Jane has just made a cake, would you like some? We’ve just bought a new house Subject+have/has+just+ Verb Participle